If a collection of cells (you) can act entrepreneurially, why can't a collection of 330 million citizens act as a team? They can? How? How often WILL they? And why not all of the time, or at least more often than we have been cooperating recently? more »

We read a great article by Mike Lofgren in the Washington Monthly: Operation Rent Seeking: How the war on terror becames a business model. It brought back to mind a concept we have discussed before, cultural or aggregate human coordination. But Lofgr… more »

Time to say goodbye? Shauble Calls on Italy to Pursue Structural Reform,Mr. Schäuble Said: German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble called on Italy to pursue its ambitious structural reform efforts if it wants to boost its economic-growth prospects. more »

Mitchell's context-specific points echo my own systemic conclusion. Historically, any improvements in productivity only freed distributed populations to explore even more distributed innovations. more »